I’ve been seeking something in CornwallI’ve been searching for it in WalesI’ve been studying the latest guide booksAnd listening to the Ancient TalesI look deep into the eyes of the people I passBut none of this gets me too farI’m … Continue reading
Not for nothing do the scorned fall on their own sword or, in this case, take the sharp and tapering end of a horn to heart. Love’s triangle, pin-prick sharp, now clouds and beside its token gesture, martyrdom beckons. All … Continue reading
You were appointed Cheshire Poet Laureate in 2004, and Manchester Cathedral Poet of the Year in 2010. Congratulations! When did you first discover your passion for words? Almost as soon as I could speak it seems I was making up … Continue reading
A dark leaf runs,toyed by a winter’s wind,away from my grasptowards the trainand my father’s bodybent on the track. In the dim room, I recallonly scents of candle smoke,and notes of fruit wood,a melody which windslike cotton, around my wrists,to … Continue reading
Results are in! The winner of our Dr Zhivago competition 2020 is Mark Sheeky, with his poem, Zhivago. Our highly commended poem is Untitled by Rachel Cohen. Many congratulations to our two winners, and all the other wonderful entries we … Continue reading
Mark Sheeky (b. 1972) is a contemporary artist and renaissance man. His childhood passion was computer game design, producing music on software of his own design. In 2004 he began oil painting and decided to devote his life to art. … Continue reading
Flakes fall, a lead glitter in terminal weep among mouse skulls, asleep in a fantasy heaven. Deep eyes hold their coal in her resting snow, a taffeta landscape of dead love, caged by spiders’ palaces woven from a heart-wool cloud … Continue reading
I went to an island, a world populated by strange beings, machines of meat developed for … unknown fetishistic purposes. I asked a retile creature, ‘take me to your leader.’ We cut through harsh forests I saw many strange beings … Continue reading